Team IMPACT connects children battling serious or chronic illnesses with college athletic teams, forming lifelong bonds and life-changing outcomes.
Through our program, a child battling illness becomes an official member of a college athletic team, attending practices, games, team dinners and more—where they serve not only as teammates, but as inspiration.
Children with chronic or life-threatening illness are repeatedly exposed to trauma. By providing the foundation for children to build safe and supportive relationships, Team IMPACT provides an empowering and future-oriented program to promote healthy social and emotional development.
Not just making any match. Making the perfect match!
Clinically-informed support ensures that everyone wins.
Therapeutic outcomes are achieved in a non-therapeutic setting.
Graduating from the program with a sense of empowerment, normalization, health promotion, and resilience.
The solidarity of a group provides the strongest protection against despair and the strongest antidote to traumatic experience. Trauma isolates; the group re-creates a sense of belonging.
Judith Herman MD / Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical SchoolProvide your child with a team of support that extends beyond their medical care.
Families Join the programOn and off the court/field/pitch/mat, student athletes are leaders. Our program makes them great leaders.
TeamsTogether we can make a difference. Your generous support helps us empower future generations of champions to lead with empathy, inclusion and resiliency.
